Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs with S7 Scheme

[Giovanni Piredda]

Am 30.12.2020 um 00:58 schrieb Massimiliano Gubinelli:
> Dear all,
>   I've spent the last few days in integrating S7 Scheme
>
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html
>
> with TeXmacs to replace Guile. S7 is a very small scheme interpreter and I 
> wanted to see how difficult was to port TeXmacs to it and whether performance 
> is acceptable. The good thing is that porting is not very difficult and now 
> that I understand the process better, I think will be also possible to port 
> TeXmacs to other scheme interpreters if needed. Unfortunately performance seems 
> to be worser than Guile 1.8 so at the moment does not seems a viable option.

I have a suspicion here---that having many different possible 
implementations of Scheme may be dangerous: packages written for one 
implementation may not work with another one, and this might hinder the 
development of user-contributed packages, and I think user contributions 
would help the development and diffusion of TeXmacs.

But perhaps it is sufficient that there is one "official" TeXmacs 
version (with Guile :-) ) and then the presence of alternatives would 
not hinder developments on the official version.

> I'm also maintaining a port to Guile 2/3 which seems to work fine.
I am eagerly waiting for it to become the main TeXmacs version.